Synonyms for Encumbering:

• adj.

  •hindering (adjective)
  • impeding,
  • inhibiting,
  • Detaining,
  • Delaying,
  • Crimping,
  • frustrating,
  • thwarting,
  • Restraining,
  • Entangling,
  • restricting,
  • constraining,
  • Entrapping,
  • bottleneck,
  • Snarling,
  • crippling,
  • Snagging,
  • Deterring,
  • Obstructing,
  • Fouling,
  • Clogging,
  • Tangling,
  • burdensome,
  • constipating,
  • Resisting,
  • Damming,
  • Handicapping,
  • hindering,
  • Complicating,
  • baffling,
  • choking,
  • congesting,
  • blocking,
  • Cramping.
  •unwieldy (adjective)
  • Unhandy.

• v.

  •hindering (verb)
  • Bunging,
  • Checking,
  • stopping,
  • opposing,
  • catching,
  • fettering,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Hampering,
  • dragging,
  • Impairing,
  • Miring,
  • braking,
  • countering,
  • jamming,
  • Hamstringing,
  • bottlenecking,
  • Interrupting,
  • barring,
  • Staying,
  • curbing,
  • Plugging.
  •penalizing (verb)
  • Discounting,
  • Disciplining,
  • Deducting,
  • punishing,
  • Correcting,
  • Forfeiting,
  • penalizing,
  • Chastising,
  • abating,
  • Burdening,
  • Fining,
  • judging.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • obstructive,
  • unwieldy,
  • Intermeddling,
  • kibitzing.
  •n.
  • loading.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abash,
  • accommodate,
  • adhere,
  • adjudge,
  • admit,
  • affray,
  • agree,
  • amaze,
  • apply,
  • appreciation,
  • apprehend,
  • apprehension,
  • arduous,
  • ascertain,
  • assay,
  • assure,
  • attach,
  • auction block,
  • awkward,
  • back,
  • backbreaking,
  • baffle board,
  • balk,
  • bandage,
  • banish,
  • bank check,
  • barricade,
  • barroom,
  • bear,
  • beat,
  • bedevil,
  • befuddle,
  • befuddlement,
  • bemusement,
  • bewilder,
  • bewilderment,
  • bilk,
  • blackball,
  • blank out,
  • block off,
  • block up,
  • blur,
  • bond,
  • book,
  • bother,
  • bound,
  • break,
  • bridle,
  • browning automatic rifle,
  • buck,
  • budge,
  • burden,
  • busy,
  • busybodied,
  • cake,
  • campaign,
  • cargo,
  • cargo area,
  • cargo deck,
  • cargo hold,
  • cark,
  • carry,
  • catch,
  • chafe,
  • charge,
  • charge up,
  • check into,
  • check mark,
  • check off,
  • check out,
  • check over,
  • check up on,
  • check-out procedure,
  • checker,
  • checkout,
  • cheque,
  • chequer,
  • chink,
  • chip,
  • chit,
  • choke up,
  • city block,
  • clasp,
  • clench,
  • close,
  • close up,
  • closure,
  • clumsy,
  • clunky,
  • clutch,
  • clutches,
  • collar,
  • commotion,
  • commove,
  • communicable,
  • conceal,
  • concord,
  • concur,
  • condition,
  • confirmation,
  • confound,
  • consignment,
  • constipate,
  • constriction,
  • constrictive,
  • contagious,
  • contain,
  • contractable,
  • contracting,
  • control,
  • cop,
  • correspond,
  • cross,
  • crusade,
  • cube,
  • cumber,
  • curb,
  • custody,
  • cylinder block,
  • daunting,
  • debar,
  • declare,
  • deem,
  • defend,
  • deflect,
  • defy,
  • detain,
  • detection,
  • detention,
  • determine,
  • difficultness,
  • disabling,
  • disallow,
  • discipline,
  • discombobulate,
  • discomfit,
  • discommode,
  • disoblige,
  • disorder,
  • disquiet,
  • disruption,
  • distressful,
  • distressing,
  • draw a blank,
  • dumbfound,
  • duty tour,
  • electronic jamming,
  • elusive,
  • encirclement,
  • enclose,
  • encumbrance,
  • enforce,
  • engine block,
  • enlistment,
  • ensure,
  • entertain,
  • espial,
  • excite,
  • exclude,
  • fight,
  • fillet,
  • find out,
  • fit,
  • flummox,
  • flurry,
  • flutter,
  • foil,
  • foiling,
  • folie,
  • foment,
  • forbear,
  • force,
  • foreclose,
  • forestall,
  • forget,
  • fox,
  • fray,
  • freeze,
  • freight,
  • frustrate,
  • frustration,
  • frustrative,
  • fuddle,
  • gap,
  • gawky,
  • get,
  • get at,
  • get to,
  • gibe,
  • gimp,
  • ginmill,
  • give,
  • go for,
  • go over,
  • grasp,
  • gravel,
  • grip,
  • grueling,
  • gruelling,
  • guard,
  • hale,
  • halt,
  • hamper,
  • handgrip,
  • handicap,
  • handle,
  • harbor,
  • harbour,
  • hard,
  • have,
  • have got,
  • heavy,
  • hind,
  • hitchhike,
  • hobble,
  • hold fast,
  • hold in,
  • hold off,
  • hold up,
  • holdup,
  • hoo-ha,
  • hoo-hah,
  • ill-chosen,
  • immobilise,
  • immobilize,
  • impedimenta,
  • impose,
  • inapt,
  • incapacitating,
  • incommode,
  • incommodiousness,
  • incumbrance,
  • inept,
  • insure,
  • interdict,
  • interference,
  • intermission,
  • interrupt,
  • irritate,
  • jam,
  • jerk,
  • jib,
  • jibe,
  • judgement,
  • judgment,
  • jumble,
  • keep,
  • keep back,
  • kerb,
  • kerfuffle,
  • kibosh,
  • knotty,
  • laborious,
  • lading,
  • learn,
  • legal community,
  • legal profession,
  • limit,
  • limp,
  • load,
  • look into,
  • lug,
  • maintain,
  • make,
  • mark,
  • mark off,
  • match,
  • measure,
  • meddling,
  • mental block,
  • mental disorder,
  • mental disturbance,
  • moderate,
  • modification,
  • mortifying,
  • mystification,
  • mystify,
  • nab,
  • nail,
  • nark,
  • nettle,
  • nix,
  • noise,
  • nonplus,
  • nurse,
  • obfuscation,
  • obligate,
  • oblige,
  • obscure,
  • obstructer,
  • obstructor,
  • obtain,
  • obturate,
  • occlusion,
  • opponent,
  • parry,
  • pause,
  • payload,
  • perplex,
  • perturbation,
  • perturbing,
  • pinch,
  • ponderous,
  • pose,
  • postponement,
  • preclude,
  • press,
  • pressure,
  • prevail,
  • prevent,
  • preventative,
  • prevention,
  • preventive,
  • problematic,
  • problematical,
  • proscribe,
  • psychological disorder,
  • pulley,
  • pulley-block,
  • push,
  • put out,
  • puzzle,
  • puzzlement,
  • qualifying,
  • rafter,
  • rag,
  • raise up,
  • regulate,
  • relegate,
  • reserve,
  • resist,
  • restrict,
  • retain,
  • rigidification,
  • rigidifying,
  • rile,
  • roadblock,
  • rouse,
  • rub,
  • ruffle,
  • saloon,
  • scotch,
  • seal off,
  • see,
  • see to it,
  • shake,
  • shift,
  • shipment,
  • snag,
  • spoil,
  • spotting,
  • spying,
  • squeeze,
  • stay,
  • stick,
  • stick to,
  • sticky,
  • stiffen,
  • stir,
  • stir up,
  • stop,
  • stoppage,
  • storage area,
  • strangling,
  • strangulation,
  • streak,
  • stripe,
  • stuff,
  • stupefy,
  • stymie,
  • stymy,
  • substantiation,
  • support,
  • suspension,
  • sustain,
  • tab,
  • take,
  • take for,
  • take hold,
  • taking into custody,
  • tally,
  • taproom,
  • term of enlistment,
  • throttle,
  • throw,
  • throw out of kilter,
  • thumb,
  • thwart,
  • tick,
  • tick off,
  • tie,
  • tie down,
  • tighten,
  • tighten up,
  • time lag,
  • to-do,
  • toilsome,
  • touch,
  • tough,
  • tour,
  • tour of duty,
  • train,
  • trammel,
  • transmissible,
  • transmittable,
  • trouble,
  • troublesomeness,
  • troubling,
  • truss,
  • turn back,
  • tyrannical,
  • tyrannous,
  • unbalance,
  • unenviable,
  • ungainly,
  • unhinge,
  • unmanageable,
  • untune,
  • upset,
  • vault,
  • verification,
  • veto,
  • vex,
  • view as,
  • wait,
  • watch,
  • weight,
  • withstand,
  • worriment,
  • worrisome,
  • worrying,
  • chokepoint,
  • hurly burly,
  • pick up,
  • break up,
  • cut off,
  • turn on,
  • mix up,
  • put off,
  • tie up,
  • shake up,
  • crack,
  • retard,
  • queer,
  • devil,
  • hang-up,
  • pulley block,
  • confine to.

Paraphrases for Encumbering:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    encumbrances.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    incriminating, straining, caring, Carrying, bursting, filling, dealing.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Instructing.

Encumbering Sentence Examples:

• Here a sweet Scotch rose, its graceful growth covered with wild - looking, fair blossoms; here a bed of lily of the valley; close by a carpet of lovely moss pink, which when cleared of encumbering weedy growth that half hid it, fairly greeted Rotha like a smile whenever she went out.

• He examined it with trembling fingers; the encumbering soil fell from its sides and left its smoothed and worn protuberances glistening in the moonlight.